Liba Vaynberg To Bring Scheiss Book To The Wild Project

Liba Vaynberg's award-winning solo play Scheiss Book: 6 Words for My Condition will return for three benefit nights at the Wild Project on 4/2, 4/7 and 4/9 in collaboration with Fault Line Theatre and Wheelhouse Theatre. Winner of the Backstage Magazine Audience Choice Award and Best One-Woman Show at the United Solo Festival with a record-breaking number of encores and subsequent productions at Dixon Place and Stonewall Inn, Scheiss Book is a solo show for people who hate solo shows. Relatives who survived the Holocaust are mentioned only for comedic purposes.

Written and performed by Liba Vaynberg* (New Amsterdam, The Oregon Trail) , directed by Leslie Gauthier (STOP THE VIRGENS, 23 Year Old Myth) and stage managed by Emma Clarkson (Little Children Dream of God, 23 Year Old Myth). Performances at the Wild Project: Tuesday April 2nd, Sunday April 7th and Tuesday April 9th.

For more information and availability please email scheissbooktickets@gmail.com.

Liba Vaynberg (Writer/Performer): Described by the New York Times as "wonderfully real and raw," Liba Vaynberg is bilingual in English and Russian; she studied Molecular Biology & International Studies at Yale. Plays include Scheiss Book (Theater Row/Dixon Place), Round Table (Upcoming: 59E59), The Russian and the Jew co-written with Emily Louise Perkins (The Tank). Current commissions include The Oxford Comma (Xavier University), The Only Ones with Dina Vovsi (The Working Theater Off-B'way). As a performer: New Amsterdam (NBC), Madam Secretary (CBS), Billy & Billie (DirecTV), The Deuce (HBO) as well as several national commercials. New York theater highlights: Black Milk (Classic Stage Company), Bekah Brunstetter's Oregon Trail (Women's Project with Fault Line Theatre), Novaya Zemlya (HERE), Golem of Havana (La Mama). Regional: Yale, Williamstown Theater Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Penguin Rep and Miami New Drama. libavaynberg.com Liba is represented by Cyd LeVin & Associates.

Leslie Gauthier (Director): Past directing credits include Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play, Sarah Kane's Crave and has also directed for Amios Theatre Company's monthly Shotz. She wrote, produced and performed her play 23-Year-Old Myth at the Dream-Up Festival. Acting credits include The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Stop the Virgens (St. Ann's Warehouse), Turn of the Screw (Lincoln Center, Everyday Inferno), Madame de Sade (Columbia University). She's also performed at Williamstown Theatre Festival. She's studied at UCB, MXAT and is a proud graduate of Fordham University where she studied Directing & Acting.

Emma Clarkson (Assistant Stage Manager) recently graduated cum laude with a B.A. in English from Yale, where she was the managing director of the Opera Theatre of Yale College from 2015 to 2017 (with producer credits including The Cunning Little Vixen, L'étoile, and Down in the Valley). Recent stage management credits include The Russian & The Jew at the Tank, Mozart's Don Giovanni (dir. Owen Horsley) for dell'Arte Opera at La Mama and filmmaker Josh Fox's one-man show "The Truth Has Changed" (International WOW) in Narrowsburg and NYC. She is working on her fourth production with the Yale Baroque Opera Project this season (Rossi's Orfeo, April 2019), and is currently a Production Management Assistant at the Manhattan School of Music.

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